"You and Me" Photo courtesy of Beijing October Literature and Art Publishing House
China News Service, Beijing, August 10 (Reporter Gao Kai) "Mr. Cao Yu has pity and sympathy for each of his characters, and he regards them as beings who need to be saved in difficult situations." August 9, by Beijing October Literature and Art Publishing House, SKPRENDEZ-VOUS co-sponsored the "Sincere as a Child: The Drama Master Cao Yu You Don’t Know-Wan Fang’s New Book Release of "You and Me"" was held. The famous actor Pu Cunxin recalled Cao Yu at the meeting and said with emotion, "We hope Mr. Cao Yu saw his work become a classic in the Spirit of Heaven, and it has been performing for hundreds of years."
"You and Me" released that day was considered a long-form non-fiction work comparable to "The Three of Us" and a sincere book. At the press conference, playwright, Cao Yu’s daughter Wan Fang, Pu Cunxin, poet, and literary critic Yang Qingxiang shared their feelings about reading "You and Me" and had an in-depth discussion on the topic of "The Drama Master Cao Yu You Didn’t Know" .
In "You and Me", Cao Yu's daughter Wanfang travels through the years. After ten years of entanglement, she is determined to face her mother as a "third party" and tell her father and mother's past in an unreserved manner. Here is the love of the ladies of the Republic of China, the lifelong friendship between Cao Yu and Ba Jin, and the affectionate father and daughter in the family letter.
Photo courtesy of Wanfang Beijing October Literature and Art Publishing House
In the writing, the daughter tried to find the truth, answering the speculation of the mother’s accidental death and the father’s "exhausted talent", and finally accepted the mother’s drug addiction and father’s weakness in character, as well as the more internal trauma of the era.
As an actor of Beijing Renyi, Pu Cunxin has performed "Thunderstorm" on stage countless times, performed "Home" adapted by Mr. Cao Yu, and also presented "The Wild". He recalled the preciousness of Mr. Cao Yu in Beijing Renyi that day. "Intersection" is very emotional, "I have a fate with Mr. Cao Yu, because I am a Beijing actor, he is our old dean. I was filming in Renyi for the first time, "Qin Emperor and Son", teacher Zheng Rong I played the role of Emperor Qin, and I played Fusu. Mr. Cao Yu was the dean at the time. He was really strict during the review and gave a lot of opinions. I remember that he mainly talked about the lines. He said that the lines are literary. Do the actors really understand? Let the audience really understand. I received a lot of vibration, because I just came to the humanities and the artistic atmosphere shocked me."
Pu Cunxin said frankly that "You and Me" brought myself back to the time before, "It makes me constantly think about how to face my fathers and how to face the past."
Wan Fang and Pu Cunxin at the press conference. Photo by Luo Xiaoguang
"Wan Fang published this book with literary value, humanistic value, and reading value. My sincerity was ignited by this book. Can I have this kind of power to treat the past life and the life I experienced? It is a power of understanding, a power of facing oneself." Pu Cunxin said.
Wan Fang said that "You and Me" was originally a book dedicated to the mother, but he could not avoid the huge halo of his father. The fate of the mother and the other women in the book is a group portrait that needs to be seen more. This is a memoir that faces the truth. The author's questioning and recording of his parents' lives is a curiosity about the truth and a desire for understanding-understanding imperfect parents and forgiving the young and ignorant self.
Wan Fang said that what she wrote this time was not only about the memories of her parents, but also brought her knowledge of her parents, and she also looked for them in the text. Wan Fang said frankly that this book was written to commemorate her mother Fang Rui. She originally wrote it for her mother. "The newspaper wrote about her relationship with my father, marriage, etc.. In fact, many of them are not facts, they are just chasing stories, even Heard. So I thought, why don’t I tell everyone the truest story about their love and marriage that I know?” Wan Fang exclaimed, “To some extent, love is the most brilliant and worthwhile in a woman’s life. I cherish something, and my mother got it. From her letter to my dad, we can see that she is a person who loves so ardently, she dedicated her life to love."
In "You and Me", Wan Fang released a large number of love letters and old photos of his parents for the first time. For this reason, this memoir adopts a conceptual design combining family files and family photo albums waiting to be opened to provide readers with an immersive reading experience.
Yang Qingxiang interpreted "You and Me" from a critic's point of view that day. He believed "You and Me" is one of the best non-fiction works in recent years, because this book has a very important empathy ability, written by Wanfang The starting point is sincerity.
"The best foothold of this book is that the author is constantly reflecting on himself, through reflecting on himself to reach the spiritual height and spiritual dilemma of Cao Yu's generation." Yang Qingxiang believes that the love letter is the most exciting part of this book. "That generation People naturally combine personal love with the love of family and country."
"Speaking of women in that era, I think of a word: radiance is brilliant. I remember a sentence in Cao Yu's letter to Fang Rui: We are all spiritual people, so we can perceive that great love. We We should go back and claim the power of these souls, so that we can have some inspiration for our current lives." Yang Qingxiang said. (Finish)